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Time management for freelancers

Formats: Webinar presentations
Topics: Translator business development
Professional skills

Course summary
Start time:Mar 11, 2011 16:00 GMT

Duration: 60 minutes. Check what time the course is running in your local time here
Language:English
Summary:Manage time (and deadlines) to have a present career with sufficient money and leisure.

Description
In this webinar you will learn why Time Management is actually the most crucial asset of your freelance career or even your life. Unless managed properly, you can be risking both short-term profit and long-term wealth. This includes your health, social life, relationships and being ready for future opportunities.

Topics to be covered:

1. Basics of time management
2. Symptoms of not proper time management
3. Identifying the symptoms
4. Addressing the symptoms - individually and collectively
5. Collective knowledge gathering
6. A list of Do's and Dont's
7. Signals of good time management

Target audience
Freelancers

Learning objectives
1. To understand why time management is critical - for present and future.
2. The relationship between deadline, committment and the limited resource called Time.
3. The relationship between profit and wealth.
4. The techniques to evaluate current profit and risk of future wealth.
5. Collected stories from freelancers who developed their techniques to manage time.
6. General tips which you can incorporate to your every day work.


Trainers
Pritam Bhattacharyya
Bio: Pritam Bhattacharyya is essentially a Bengali/Sylheti/Assamese linguist with 11 years of experience. He is the Founder and Chief Wordsmith of an agency called Wordsmith Communication. which apart from language services in pan-Indic languages provides Creative Content and Print on Demand Services. He is editor of www.pentasect.com - a bilingual (English / Bengali) cultural monthly ezine on Greater Bengal. He had worked as a Telecom Engineer and later as a IP Network Manager in various cross-cultural Telecom teams worldwide. He holds his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Masters in Communication Management from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. Pritam lives and works in Calcutta, India his city by adoption. His b-log on translation and online business can be seen here at http://wordsmithofbengal.wordpress.com

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